Moving XP to a second hard drive

[Guest]

The hard drive that I boot from seems to be going out. I have a second hard
drive on this computer. Is there any way that I can move XP to the second
hard drive so when my current C: drive goes out that i can boot from my
second hard drive.

Dean

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

A procedure for copying your old hard drive system to
a new hard drive is often included in a User's Guide
that comes with a new hard drive. You can also visit
the support web site of the manufacturer of your new
hard drive to obtain instructions.

The alternative is to purchase a drive imaging program,
such as Partition Magic 8.0
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

Animated Shockwave tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

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| The hard drive that I boot from seems to be going out. I have a second hard
| drive on this computer. Is there any way that I can move XP to the second
| hard drive so when my current C: drive goes out that i can boot from my
| second hard drive.
|
| Dean

 

[Michael Stevens]

The hard drive that I boot from seems to be going out. I have a
second hard drive on this computer. Is there any way that I can move
XP to the second hard drive so when my current C: drive goes out that
i can boot from my second hard drive.

Dean

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[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote on 06-Jan-2005 7:31 AM:

A procedure for copying your old hard drive system to
a new hard drive is often included in a User's Guide
that comes with a new hard drive. You can also visit
the support web site of the manufacturer of your new
hard drive to obtain instructions.

The alternative is to purchase a drive imaging program,
such as Partition Magic 8.0
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

Animated Shockwave tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

Carey's advice is very sound and recommended, but some users find that
the hard drive utility doesn't properly setup the new hard drive for
use. You sometimes have to boot the XP recovery console and set the
partition as active to allow it to boot. A third party boot manager can
make this easier.

Also be careful not to install XP on the new drive while the old drive
is in the machine. You won't be able to remove the old drive and boot
the new drive as some critical files will be on the old drive. You have
to use a boot/partition manager or a disk clone utility, as well as
something to activate the partition, if required.

If you are technically savvy, now would be a good time to try
www.bootitng.com. A great value and superb tool, but complicated. If you
really don't want more than one partition on your new hard drive, use
the hard drive utility but rummage around and find your XP CD (not the
Recovery CD, the XP CD). If you don't have an XP CD, post back for more
help in getting prepared to fix any problem that arises from the hard
disk copy utility. Also note that you might need to download the most
recent version of the copy utility from the hard drive maker's web site,
to ensure that what you have is XP compatible, meaning NTFS compatible.
Some hard drives sit on the shelf for a long time.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote on 06-Jan-2005 7:31 AM:

Carey's advice is very sound and recommended, but some users find
that the hard drive utility doesn't properly setup the new hard drive for
use. You sometimes have to boot the XP recovery console and set the
partition as active to allow it to boot. A third party boot manager can
make this easier.

Also be careful not to install XP on the new drive while the old drive
is in the machine. You won't be able to remove the old drive and boot
the new drive as some critical files will be on the old drive. You have
to use a boot/partition manager or a disk clone utility, as well as
something to activate the partition, if required.

If you are technically savvy, now would be a good time to try
www.bootitng.com. A great value and superb tool, but complicated.
If you really don't want more than one partition on your new hard drive,
use the hard drive utility but rummage around and find your XP CD
(not the Recovery CD, the XP CD). If you don't have an XP CD, post
back for more help in getting prepared to fix any problem that arises
from the hard disk copy utility. Also note that you might need to
download the most recent version of the copy utility from the hard drive
maker's web site, to ensure that what you have is XP compatible,
meaning NTFS compatible. Some hard drives sit on the shelf for a
long time.

The Disk Management utility in WinXP can be used to mark a
partition "active". This can be run from the old OS before the new
OS is booted for the 1st time. PowerQuest's Drive Image 7.x (and
presumably its derivative Symantec Ghost 9.0) ask whether the
new partition should be marked "active", obviating the need to do
that separately.

*TimDan*